FRIGID New York's 'New York Madness' Series to Feature Playwright Mac Rogers This Month

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the November installment of New York Madness on Sunday, November 20 at 8pm with Featured Guest Playwright Mac Rogers (The Honeycomb Trilogy; Universal Robots; Webby Award winning podcast, The Message), along with playwrights Sean Williams (writer for Slate, Huffington Post, and The New Yorker; Executive Producer, Gideon Productions), Seamus Sullivan (Me and The Devil Blues with Flying V Theatre), Tori Keenan-Zelt (2016 Emmy Award Nominee for Working Children on PBS; Air Space, Kilroys List 2016; 2015 Princess Grace Finalist for Truth Dare...), Mariah MacCarthy (Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award; Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People; a Kilroys List Honorable Mention for Honors Students; Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion), Judith Leora (NY Madness Founding Managing Director; The Cookie Fight at Bristol VAlley Theatre), Lindsay Joy (In the Event of My Death with Stable Cable; NYIT Award for The Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen with LabRats Theater), and Nicolo Grelli (H.E. with FullStop Collective; The Tribunal with LAByrinth).

New York Madness is a raw and unpredictable show of short plays by an ensemble of playwrights presented fully staged with scripts in hand. They write a short play and cast it, rehearse it, and bring it in on its feet. The collected works create a kaleidoscope of cultural moments reflecting this moment in time, framed by a theme that is chosen by the Featured Guest Playwright. The primary goal of Madness is the exploration of modern American Playwriting through the use of theatrical storytelling.

New York Madness takes place every last Sunday of the month at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Tickets ($10) may be purchased in advance at www.horseTRADE.info.

FRIGID NEW YORK is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.